4 at 4: Afternoon links from around the sports world

The NFL is back, while college and high school football have been settled in for weeks. The U.S. Open men's final tonight will feature the top two players in the world — Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal — facing each other with yet another major title on the line. (For the record, this is their 37th match against each other, with Nadal leading 21-15 overall while Djokovic has a 3-2 edge in Grand Slam finals.) Then there's the Fedex Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour and NASCAR's own version of the postseason, "The Race to the Chase," which will begin this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. And of course, baseball is drawing ever closer to ending its regular season and locking in its playoff participants.

It's hard to take it all in, isn't it? So many sports, so little time. But with sports on the brain, let's make a few stops on the "information superhighway" with athletics as the main focus in today's edition of "4 at 4".

4. We usually end these link-saturated affairs with a video, so why fix what isn't broken? If you haven't see the home run Atlanta's Evan Gattis hit on Sunday, you're missing a thing of beauty. The home run off "El Oso Blanco's" bat traveled an estimated 480 feet at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park. It doesn't matter that it's known as a hitter-friendly ballpark; 480 feet is a long, long way from home plate.

Admire the mammoth shot courtesy of the Braves' left fielder by watching the clip below.

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Jordan D. Hill has covered high schools and athletes in the Bi-City area for the Ledger-Enquirer since January 2017. Prior to coming to Columbus, Hill was a freelancer for The Macon Telegraph and an intern for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A native of Jasper, Georgia, Hill is a graduate of Pickens High School and the University of Georgia.